Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: HF3564

HF 3564

SECOND ENGROSSMENT

Child welfare provisions amended, standard of
evidence changed, new Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children adopted,
old compact repealed, child and adult adoptions and voluntary foster care for
treatment regulated.

Section 1: Disqualification from direct contact language
modified.

Section 2: 15-year disqualification language modified.

Section 3:
Ten-year disqualification language modified.

Section 4: Seven-year
disqualification language modified.

Section 5: Permanent bar to set aside a
disqualification language modified.

Section 6: Ten-year bar to set aside
disqualification language modified.

Section 7: Fair hearing when
disqualification is not set aside language modified.

Section 8: Conclusive
disqualification determination language modified.

Section 9: State agency
hearings language modified.

Section 10: Standard of evidence for maltreatment
and disqualification hearings modified.

Section 11: Policy and purpose language
modified.

Section 12: Adult adoption language modified.

Section 13: Persons
who may be adopted language modified.

Section 14: Contents of petition language
modified.

Section 15: Adult adoption language provided.

Section 16: Study
required before placement; certain relatives excepted language
modified.

Section 17: Birth parent history; commissioner's form language
modified.

Section 18: Requirement to search registry before adoption petition
can be granted; proof of search language modified.

Section 19: Reports and
records language added.

Section 20: Findings; orders language
modified.

Section 21: Legal effect language modified.

Section 22: Enrollment
in American Indian tribe language modified.

Section 23: Adoption assistance
agreement language modified.

Section 24: Modification or termination of the
adoption assistance agreement language modified.

Section 25: Recovery of
overpayments language provided.

Section 26: Eligibility conditions language
modified.

Section 27: Withdrawal of registration language modified.

Section
28: Request language added.

Section 29: Search language modified.

Section 30:
Release of information after notice language modified.

Section 31: Adult
adoptions language provided.

Section 32: Interstate compact for the placement
of children language provided, including Article I-Purpose, Article
II-Definitions, Article III-Applicability, Article IV-Jurisdiction, Article
V-Placement Evaluation, Article VI-Placement Authority, Article VII-Placing
Agency Responsibility, Article VIII-Interstate Commission for the Placement of
Children, Article IX- Powers and Duties of the Interstate Commission, Article
X-Organization and Operation of the Interstate Commission, Article XI-Rulemaking
Functions of the Interstate Commission, Article XII-Oversight, Dispute
Resolution, Enforcement, Article XIII-Financing of the Commission, Article
XV-Withdrawal and Dissolution, Article XVI-Severability and Construction,
Article XVII-Binding Effect of Compact and Other Laws, Article XVIII-Indian
Tribes.

Section 33: Child in need of protection services language
modified.

Section 34: Child abuse language modified.

Section 35: Child in need
of protection or services language added.

Section 36: Domestic child abuse
language added.

Section 37: Jurisdiction over other matters relating to
children language is modified.

Section 38: Review of foster care status
language is modified.

Section 39: General language modified.

Section 40:
Public inspection of records language modified.

Section 41: Hearing and release
requirements language added.

Section 42: Dispositions, voluntary foster care
for treatment language modified.

Section 43: Subjects language
modified.

Section 44: General procedures language modified.

Section 45:
Assessment for emergency relative placement language provided.

Section 46:
Out-of-home placement; plan language modified.

Section 47: Responsible social
service agency's duties for children in placement language modified.

Section
48: Monthly caseworker visits with children in foster care language
provided.

Section 49: Administrative or court review of placements language
modified.

Section 50: Voluntary foster care; required court review language is
modified.

Section 51: Transfer of custody language modified.

Section 52: Both
parents deceased language modified.

Section 53: Child in voluntary foster care
for treatment language is provided.

Section 54: Definitions are provided.


Section 55: Voluntary foster care language is provided.

Section 56: Required
information for child in voluntary foster care for treatment language is
provided.

Section 57: Administrative review of child in voluntary foster care
for treatment language is provided.

Section 58: Agency report to the court
and court review of child in voluntary foster care for treatment due to
disability language is provided.

Section 59: Required permanency review
hearing language is provided.

Section 60: Annual review language is provided.


Section 61: Permanency review after adjudication under Chapter 260C language
provided.

Section 62: Termination of voluntary placement agreement language
provided.

Section 63: Meaning of child and related terms language
modified.

Section 64: Report language added.

Section 65: Law enforcement
agency responsibility for investigation; welfare agency reliance on law
enforcement fact-finding; welfare agency offer of services language
modified.

Section 66: Revisor's instruction language provided.

Section 67:
Repealer language provided.

SNA 3/25/08